Spaulding, William Augustus, 1842-1913.

William A. Spaulding was born in Maine in 1842 and settled with his family in Monticello, Minnesota in 1856. He served in the Civil War from 1862 to 1865. Following the war he worked in railroad surveying and construction and went on to study dentistry. In 1875 he graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery. He returned to Minnesota to practice and in 1883 he became a professor of prosthetic dentistry at the Minnesota Dental College, later becoming dean. From 1893 to 1912 he practiced dentistry in Europe. He returned to Minnesota in 1912 and died on October 17, 1913.

From the guide to the William A. Spaulding Civil War diaries., Undated and 1861-1865., (Minnesota Historical Society)